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Helioporacea

Anthozoa - Helioporacea

Taxonomy
Helioporacea is an order. It is extant.

It was assigned to Anthozoa by Sepkoski (2002); and to Octocorallia by Veron (2000) and McFadden et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2000Helioporacea Veron p. 404
2002Helioporacea Sepkoski
2021Helioporacea McFadden et al. p. 637

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
RankNameAuthor
subclassOctocorallia
orderHelioporacea
orderHelioporacea

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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G. Epiphaxum Lonsdale 1850
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Epiphaxum arbuscula Lozouet and Molodtsova 2008
Epiphaxum auloporoides Lonsdale 1850
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Heliopora bennetti Wells 1934
Heliopora boettgeri Fritsch 1874
Heliopora lusanovkaensis Kuzmicheva 1975
Heliopora mexicanae Frost and Langenheim, Jr. 1974
Heliopora radiata Orbigny 1850
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Invalid names: Heliopora edwardsana Stoliczka 1873 [synonym]
Heliopora sparsipora Felix 1921
Heliopora stewarti Budd et al. 1992
Fm. †Helioporidae Moseley 1876
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G. †Acropsammia Gerth 1933
G. †Parapolytremacis Alloiteau 1957
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Parapolytremacis alloiteaui Alloiteau and Tissier 1958
G. †Progonopora Gerth 1933
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Progonopora variabilis Gerth 1933
G. †Pseudopolytremacis Morycowa 1971
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Invalid names: Proheliopora [synonym]
G. †Kaluginella Kuzmicheva 1980
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Kaluginella turkmenensis Kuzmicheva 1980
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Polytremacis blainvillei Michelin 1841
Polytremacis partschi Reuss 1854
Polytremacis tenera Trauth 1911
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available